>>39567254The first Dragon Quest monsters came out just as RB came outside of Japan, and it had the immensely popular Dragon Quest franchise backing it up, and not only it was better than Pokemon games then but also the ones from now. Then Digimon, SMT which is older than Pokemon(no trading though) Just an example.
>but saying that the original 151 weren't marketable (in a franchise that was build around the merchandise) is just wrong.But it isn't. Charizard is marketable. Blastoise is marketable. Pikachu is marketable. The edgy Dragonball villain clone is SUPER marketable especially due its status in the game and the movie that succeeded it. The Xenomorph horseshoe crab with scythes is marketable. The dinosaur scythed mantis is marketable. The killer poison rabbitsaur is marketable.
The eggs are not marketable. Hentai Yoshi is not marketable. The black woman is not marketable. The pedophile is not marketable. "Bird" is not marketable.
All gens have their share of gems and stinkers, but some people tend to ignore the stinkers's status and make everyone gems.
Also, to me, Voltorb and its evo's appeal died in 2001. For a franchise that tries to make all of its creatures relatively believable as living in a magic world, one that only works in gameplay and at that only in earlier games is a failure.
